"[54]
"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so
to them."[55]
FOOTNOTES:
[40] Archdeacon Manning.
[41] See Bishop Butler's Sermons.
[42] 1 Cor. vi. 20.
[43] Acts iv. 28.
[44] Coleridge's Aids to Reflection.
[45] Hannah More.
[46] Rom. xv. 1, 2, 3.
[47] Matt. xx. 28.
[48] 2 Cor. v. 15.
[49] Phil. ii. 4.
[50] 1 Cor. xvi. 14.
[51] Gal. v. 13.
[52] Thess. iv. 9.
[53] 1 John iii. 18.
[54] Rom. xiii. 9, 10.
[55] Matt. vii. 12.
LETTER VI.
SELF-CONTROL.
You will probably think it strange that I should consider it necessary
to address you, of all others, upon the subject of self-control,--you
who are by nature so placid and gentle, so dignified and refined, that
you have never been known to display any of the outbreaks of temper
which sometimes disgrace the conduct of your companions.
You compare yourself with others, and probably cannot help admiring your
superiority. You have, besides, so often listened to the assurances of
your friends that your temper is one that cannot be disturbed, that you
may think self-control the very last point to which your attention
needed to be directed.
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